Ideal temoerature for outdoor respraying

I'm looking forward to respraying the old girl for the summer. Just a few minor jobs before she's good to go.

Obviously a dry still day is needed, but what's the minimum air temperature recommended for spraying outdoors?

 

you would be best off with a shelter that can get warm maybe in the sunlight
and keep the wind off of the bus,

 

my neighbour had a home professional do some panel work and respray on the driveway. the pro erected a spray booth shelter around the whole car to keep it warm, dry and dust free and keep the spray from blowing into the wind and affecting neighbours.

 

I've sprayed it several times over the past 20 years, usually in the summer. Just need to know the lowest temperature recommended

 

I was told that 15c was about the minimum temperature to paint.
The humidity doesn't help either. It's 85% outside here according to my weather station.

 

20 - 22 c is ideal, although as said above, 15 will do.

 

2k or celly?

 

Cellulose. I've just finished my 5ltr tin of VW L20B and am ready to replace it with a slightly brighter orange from HERE

The last dregs of the L20B were used to touch up a couple of ongoing patches, while at the same time renovating an old bike!!

Now waiting for 15degrees plus

 

Damp/humidity or lack of is as important as temperature

 

Get anti bloom thinners for your celly. I painted a panel on my bug using high gloss thinners and its went all milky. Did another with anti bloom and it turned out fine.

 

Nice. Is that for sale? Retro porn!

 

Just spreayed some etch primer on mine. Does that count?

 

Isn't there a spec sheet for the paint you have?

 

This is very true and often overlooked

 

Don't forget to take pictures mike

 

Not for sale! Mostly 1970s and early 1980s equipment. Even the tubulars are NOS 1986!

It's their "own mix" o-r-a-n-g-e, brighter than the VW. See link above for details

 

I always wanted one. Iw was impoverished and stuck with a BSA tour of Britain that weighed about the same as a BSA Goldstar lol!

 

Ohh that's nice

 

Sprayed the back of the camper yesterday as an experiment, and it went quite well. So finished the job today! 12 degrees, dry air and little wind.

Used anti-bloom thinners mixed 50/50 with the paint. Most of it is nice and shiny, will have to wait until it thoroughly dries before T cutting to an all-over shine.

The skill seems to be getting the right speed of "pass" over the panel. The particles of paint need to hit the panel in a way that they "merge" into each other to give a smooth finish.
Too quick, and the result is a dull finish. Too slow, and the paint runs!

Used about 3 litres of paint (plus 3lts thinners) and found that a 50 ltr air tank did about one drivers door before the pressure dropped too low to continue.

I'm sure that with a much larger compressor, and a better environment (i.e. a very brightly lit indoor booth) the job would have been even better.

How long should I wait for the paint to harden sufficiently before starting with the TCut ?

In the meantime there's loads of over-spray to remove, and fine details to add by brush.

Over 21 years of ownership I've resprayed the camper completely about 8-9 times after fighting the dreaded rust - seems as easy to do a full spray as just spraying the repaired areas.

Not a "concourse" finish obviously, but I'm quite pleased with the result.

If anyone wants to do a respray on their camper have a go, it's very satisfying and all part of owning such a great vehicle

Here's the partway stage, with the back showing the new colour and the side the previous L20B.

 

Looks great